Are you sure about that? I did some research, and Harvard's rights are indeed written into Massachusetts' constitution: https://malegislature.gov/Laws/Constitu

Are you sure about that? I did some research, and Harvard's rights are indeed written into Massachusetts' constitution: https://malegislature.gov/Laws/Constitution#chapterVSectionI https://malegislature.gov/Laws/Constitution#chapterVSectionI Chapter V, Section I, Article I: > it is declared, that the President and Fellows of Harvard College,in their corporate capacity, and their successors in that capacity, their officers and servants, shall have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy, all the powers, authorities, rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and franchises, which they now have or are entitled to have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy: and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed unto them, the said president and fellows of Harvard College, and to their successors, and to their officers and servants, respectively, forever. Chapter V, Section I, Article II: > And whereas there have been at sundry times, by divers persons, gifts, grants, devises of houses, lands, tenements, goods, chattels, legacies and conveyances, heretofore made, either to Harvard College in Cambridge, in New England, or to the president and fellows of Harvard College, or to the said college, by some other description, under several charters successively: it is declared, that all the said gifts, grants, devises, legacies and conveyances, are hereby forever confirmed unto the president and fellows of Harvard College, and to their successors in the capacity aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor or devisors.